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    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 34 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,435 ratings
    • For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace....

    Regular price: $44.09

    • Mussolini to the Present
    • By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
    • Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,079 ratings
    • Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. Here, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,072 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Germans, 1933-45
    • By: Milton Mayer
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 613 ratings
    • First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
    • By: Michael Harriot
    • Narrated by: Michael Harriot
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,485 ratings
    • From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot comes a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • By: Annabel Crabb
    • Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • 'I need a wife'. It's a common joke among women juggling work and family, but it's no joke....

    Regular price: $20.00

    • By: Sun Tzu
    • Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42,407 ratings
    • The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....

    Regular price: $9.95

    • A History
    • By: Stanley Karnow
    • Narrated by: Edward Holland
    • Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 692 ratings
    • In this comprehensive history, Stanley Karnow demystifies the tragic ordeal of America's war in Vietnam....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • The Women's History of the World
    • By: Rosalind Miles
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
    • By: Ann Fessler
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 670 ratings
    • Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

    Regular price: $22.35

    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,916 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

    Regular price: $38.68

    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
    • By: Geoff Shepard
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • The Watergate trials were a legal mess - and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: John Little
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,267 ratings
    • Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history....

    Regular price: $10.97

    • The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
    • By: Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan
    • Narrated by: Traci Odom
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. Authors Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 591 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
    • By: J. W. Ocker
    • Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond....

    Regular price: $11.87

    • The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,744 ratings
    • John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

    Regular price: $13.50